--- title: Jeremiah 6:26 (JPS 1917) — O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow thysel… · tree and pragmatics description: O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes; make thee mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation; for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us. Who acts: you, spoiler. 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The page gives the sentence's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, parsed by Mova and checked by a teacher model — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, spoiler), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it. The original of the verse links back to its own tree and to the Targum. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = jps:JER:197 # text = O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes; make thee mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation; for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us. 1 O o INTJ UH _ 2 discourse _ _ 2 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 vocative _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nmod _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 gird gird VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 8 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 7 obj _ _ 9 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 sackcloth sackcloth NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 wallow wallow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 14 thyself thyself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes|Style=Arch 13 obj _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 ashes ash NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 18 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 parataxis _ _ 19 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 18 obj _ _ 20 mourning mourning NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 xcomp _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 as as ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 23 for for ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 only only ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 29 advmod _ _ 29 bitter bitter ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 lamentation lamentation NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 appos _ _ 31 ; ; PUNCT : _ 37 punct _ _ 32 for for SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 spoiler spoiler NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 35 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 36 suddenly suddenly ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 37 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 advcl _ _ 38 upon upon ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 37 obl _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **gird** | imperative | you *not said here* | thee | | | | with sackcloth; daughter of my people *vocative* | tree rules | | 2 | **wallow** | infinitive | you *not said here* | thyself | | ashes | | | tree rules | | 3 | **make** | infinitive | | thee | | | | as a only son | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset thou=Product | | 4 | **come** | shall | the spoiler | | | | | upon us; suddenly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon we=Location | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. ## The Hebrew of this verse {#hebrew} בַּת־עַמִּ֤י חִגְרִי־שָׂק֙ וְהִתְפַּלְּשִׁ֣י בָאֵ֔פֶר אֵ֤בֶל יָחִיד֙ עֲשִׂ֣י לָ֔ךְ מִסְפַּ֖ד תַּמְרוּרִ֑ים כִּ֣י פִתְאֹ֔ם יָבֹ֥א הַשֹּׁדֵ֖ד עָלֵֽינוּ׃ [Jeremiah 6:26: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.6.26/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JER:197` of Mova's parse database. **The tree and the speech act** come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter. - ← previous: [Jeremiah 6:25 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.196/) - next →: [Jeremiah 6:27 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.198/) - ↑ back to [Jeremiah 6:26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.6.26/)